In recent days since the tragic rape and murder of young Jyoti of New Delhi (as she has been named) there has been talk about Bharat versus India. Shri Mohan Bhagawat is alleged to have said that rapes occur only in India but not in Bharat. RSS spokespersons have come forward to clarify this statement. Senior journalists have commented on this also. The present writer has also pointed out that what Shri Bhagawat must have meant was that the negative aspects of modernisation are more evident in urban India than elsewhere. This has been written about considerably.

However, it is important that the focus should be not on Bharat versus India, but on Bharat-India. . . . (READ MORE).